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A lot of folks are asking what they can do, this is one thing: hit them where it hurts, their bottom line! February 28th -all day.

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Guess what? Town hall meetings with your elected representative can't be hacked by Elon's prepubescent cyberterrorists. They can ignore their emails and voicemails, but they will hear a packed room of pissed off constituents.

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Stand up for science everywhere! Science saves lives, science gives to humanity.

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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine doesn’t sign minerals deal. Starlink is essential for Ukraine’s battlefield comms. This is the equivalent of FDR threatening to arm the Nazis if Europe didn’t sign over half its resources. Extortion. And utterly unforgivable. Hell awaits.

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I think Dems need to hammer this talking point. This is the type of thing the GOP would relentlessly exploit.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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They really are reminiscent of that!

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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After sending over 400 ICE agents to Denver and Aurora, CO, and knocking on hundreds of Americans' doors, ICE made only one arrest. Now, Trump has removed the Acting ICE Director, Caleb Vitello. (WaPo)

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It's National Caregivers Day and I know all too well what caregiving entails. I was simultaneously the caregiver for my husband, Brian (#ALS) and my 9yo son, Eli (#DIPG). If you know a caregiver: call them and remind them how important they are. It makes all the difference.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Telling your Republican representatives what you think does have an affect. Don’t let anyone tell you that confronting them doesn’t do anything. When it goes public like this, it absolutely has an effect.

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If firefighters can work, they can save properties from being completely destroyed. That means less property for greedy rich people to snatch up.

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Exactly this. It’s how conspiracy theories begin

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Many of us in rural areas depend on our USPS for medications.

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New on MSNBC: Enrique Tarrio, the ex-Proud Boys leader granted clemency by Trump last month, has been arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester.

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🚨☀️ Hey Bluesky! Know anyone near the following cities that would be willing to help us Stand Up for Science? ☀️🚨 Annapolis, MD Bismarck, ND Boise, ID Charleston, WV Dover, DE Jackson, MS Anchorage or Juneau, AK Montpelier, VT Richmond, VA Send them our way! #standupforscience2025

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We wanted to know what the average Black person thinks of Donald Trump. So we asked the communications director of the Houston Young Republicans, who grew up in a mixed race family in a majority white Long Island suburb.

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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. 🧵 Thread below on today's ruling. PAY ATTENTION NatSec colleagues @altdod.bsky.social @votevets.org because what they are willing to do to us they will not hesitate to do military families, too. 1/ www.wjtv.com/washington/w...

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President Trump's interference in DC's governance is making the strongest case yet that DC needs statehood. Securing DC's right to govern itself is a matter of fairness and democracy. Read our new analysis:

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They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

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Brad Schimel failed sexual assault victims by letting over 6,000 rape kits sit untested for over two years. Read the latest from Judge Crawford in The Waukesha Freeman: www.gmtoday.com/the_freeman/...

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Heads up!!! After February 25, you will no longer be able to download kindle books that you purchased. So make sure you take the time to download and save your library this weekend. And also, divest from Bezos and Amazon!!!

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Media reports peg Labor Secretary nominee as “Trump’s Pro-Labor Pick.” But at Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s Senate hearing, she: — defended “Right-to-Work” laws — refused to back a minimum wage hike — refused to back paid leave That’s an ANTI-WORKER, ANTI-UNION AGENDA. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Remember this if your kids survive the measles but continue to be sick all the time. asm.org/Articles/201...

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Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

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He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

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Need some positive news this week? In the year since Michigan enacted its Extreme Risk law, courts issued 300 orders temporarily limiting gun access from people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others, allowing people in crisis the chance to seek help and preventing countless tragedies.

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This philandering stuffed suit is a disgrace, but I am glad to see he actually faced his constituents. In Georgia, that is vanishingly rare. Our rep, Buddy Carter, spoke to high school students and was visibly rattled by their gentle questioning.

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A leaked invite only town hall meeting is what helped take down David “women up in my grill” Brat in Virginia.

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For all you, “my rep is a Republican so I can’t do anything” YES YOU CAN YES YOU HAVE TO

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Fuckery Friday. The day the new admin does everything possible to turn tomorrow into Shitstorm Saturday

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I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again: where oh, where are all of those strict constitutionalists demanding that the executive branch’s power and reach is limited in their very, very very limited government view?

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Important read. Also important to reiterate that pressuring your REPUBLICAN representatives does have an effect, no matter how they end up voting. Get up in their grills open.substack.com/pub/jamiedup...

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With only two medical doctors, the UVA Board of Visitors is not an appropriate entity to regulate and litigate a person’s access to healthcare services. As they meet today in closed session, I'm urging BOV members to stay out of the doctor’s office and stay out of culture wars.

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